CONTENTS

Building Towards a Point of Always Building: A Visual Foreword | Keetra Dean Dixon

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Giving Form to the Future

Timeline

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SECTION ONE: STRUCTURING THE DIGITAL

Introduction

Visual Design in Action | Ladislav Sutnar | 1961

Arte Programmata | Bruno Munari | 1964

Designing Programmes | Karl Gerstner | 1964

The Ultimate Display | Ivan E. Sutherland | 1965

Structure as Art? Art as Structure? | Max Bill | 1965

Whole Earth Catalog | Stewart Brand | 1968

Type Design for the Computer Age | Wim Crouwel | 1970

Doing Wall Drawings | Sol LeWitt | 1971

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THEORY AT WORK: 1960s–1970s

SECTION TWO: RESISTING CENTRAL PROCESSING

Introduction

Creativity and Technology | Sharon Poggenpohl | 1983

Does It Make Sense? | April Greiman | 1986

Computers and Design | Muriel Cooper | 1989

Ambition/Fear | Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans | 1989

User Interface: A Personal View | Alan Kay | 1989

Is Best Really Better | Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum | 1990

Redefining Display | P. Scott Makela | 1993

Design by Numbers | John Maeda | 1999

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THEORY AT WORK: 1980–2000

SECTION THREE: ENCODING THE FUTURE

Introduction

Processing… | Ben Fry and Casey Reas | 2007

Design and the Elastic Mind | Paola Antonelli | 2008

Design in the Age of Biology: Shifting from a Mechanical-Object Ethos to an Organic-Systems Ethos | Hugh Dubberly | 2008

Conditional Design: A Manifesto for Artists and Designers | Luna Maurer, Edo Paulus, Jonathan Puckey, Roel Wouters | 2008

Designed Animism | Brenda Laurel | 2009

Conversations with the Network | Khoi Vinh | 2011

Museum as Manufacturer | Keetra Dean Dixon | 2013

Posthuman-Centered Design | Haakon Faste | 2015

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THEORY AT WORK: 2000–PRESENT

Glossary

Text Sources

Bibliography

Credits

Index